That’s actually my feelings on the matter, it always struck me as bordering on wishful thinking to be obsessing with ‘winning’ ideologically. This is something that only comes after hypothetical conflict with the state that may not even end the way we want it to in the first place.
Obsessing over some hypothetical future betrayal is easily used as an excuse to not organize in the here and now, like the opposite of a self fulfilling prophecy.
I still consider myself an Anarchist, though some of my best friends are Marxists and I’ve even done a fair bit of organizing work with Marxists. That experience makes it hard for me to see them as a looming threat. I mostly organize with Anarchists because that’s who’s doing work locally and while some of them can definitely be very sectarian, they also tend to be the more online ones with the narrowest reading list in my experience.
Yeah I just guess I’m “a socialist” but in practice I’m just your friendly neighbourhood juggalo ready to get down and I’d rather not implicate anyone else in anything I might do so anarchism is probably the closest sort of “historical” ideology that describes my shit. Also I read Goldman and recognise that every system has its failings. My faith is in that after the final revolution, final-form communism will ultimately prevail and that should be everyone’s desired outcome. Note: faith, not belief. in practice, pfft, humans are messy creatures.
That’s actually my feelings on the matter, it always struck me as bordering on wishful thinking to be obsessing with ‘winning’ ideologically. This is something that only comes after hypothetical conflict with the state that may not even end the way we want it to in the first place.
Obsessing over some hypothetical future betrayal is easily used as an excuse to not organize in the here and now, like the opposite of a self fulfilling prophecy.
I still consider myself an Anarchist, though some of my best friends are Marxists and I’ve even done a fair bit of organizing work with Marxists. That experience makes it hard for me to see them as a looming threat. I mostly organize with Anarchists because that’s who’s doing work locally and while some of them can definitely be very sectarian, they also tend to be the more online ones with the narrowest reading list in my experience.
Yeah I just guess I’m “a socialist” but in practice I’m just your friendly neighbourhood juggalo ready to get down and I’d rather not implicate anyone else in anything I might do so anarchism is probably the closest sort of “historical” ideology that describes my shit. Also I read Goldman and recognise that every system has its failings. My faith is in that after the final revolution, final-form communism will ultimately prevail and that should be everyone’s desired outcome. Note: faith, not belief. in practice, pfft, humans are messy creatures.